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Poll: Is Michele Bachmann the G.O.P.'s Biggest Embarrassment?

It can be hard to keep up with the verbal diarrhea of people who seem to talk before they think. Especially when someone makes a career of it, like Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. (Her latest contribution to American political discourse: "During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy...The government spent its wad by April 26.") But a Tumblr page called Look at This Fucking Michele Bachmann, based on popular Tumblr feature Look at This Fucking Hipster, is on top of the task, cataloging, through words and pictures, each new development in Bachmann's ongoing quest to take politics to new depths of simple-minded absurdity.

Does Bachman's outspoken ignorance make her the single greatest living shame on the Republican Party? Or does the gravity of Dick Cheney's affronts to the Constitution represent a far more serious tarnish? Or is Sarah Palin worse than either of them? Who is the biggest embarrassment to the G.O.P. today? Cast your vote in VF Daily's poll.